Roumania

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 26, 27 December 1916, Page 5

Roumania

SITUATION IMPROVING. Press Association—Copyright, Australia.! and N.Z. Cable Association Paris, December 26. The Petit Parisien's Petrograd correspondent states that the situation in Roumania is improving. The Russians have gained advantages between the Carpathians and the Danube. The Russians have fallen back in the Dobrudja, coming into contact with the left bank of the Danube. The stretch provides natural defence for Galatz, but Braila is exposed. The enemy is completing repairs to the Cernavoda bridge securing supplies from the Dobrudja. There is violent fighting in the-Up-per Carpathian valleys. A Russian communique states: — The enemy repeatedly failed to recapture a height on the TJsa, on the Moldavian frontier.

The Roumanians were pushed back in places in the region of the Kasino River and the Vranchea Mountains. All the enemy attacks to the left of the Danube were repelled, except one height, which was lost. Our left abandoned lsaktcha and Tulcea, in the Dobrudja. GENERAL ITEMS. London, December 26. M. Bourchier wires as follows: The highest estimates of the whole of the German forces in Roumania cannot excel those of the Roumania. Their successes are due to superior heavy artillery. A Jassy correspondent reports that the Roumanian King, in a speech at the opening of Parliament, said: — "The army has sustained the struggle according to the glorious traditions of its ancestors in a manner justifying our looking forward to the future with absolute confidence. Roumania will bear her great hardships and sacrifices of the war courageously, being absolutely confident that victory would be on the Allies' side, for which reason Roumania was determined to devote every energy till that end was achieved." Krupp's organ, the Westfalische Zietung, admits the complete destruction of the Roumanian oil wells, which Germany found practically useless.